Mary Ann Lawrence

Mary Ann may not be the daughter of Samuel Potts. Need more research to confirm this story...http://www.migrations.org/individual.php3?record=5387

Richard Goucher was born to Samuel Potts Goucher and Jane Elizabeth Van Zile (also Vanzile, Vansile) on May 12, 1827 in Hamburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey. Samuel Potts Goucher moved the entire family to Indiana in about 1830 living in both Dearborn and Ripley counties. Richard's siblings were: Stephen S. b. 1818, William b. 1820, Mary b. 1824, John b. 1826, Henry L. b. 1829 David b. 1830 and Reuben b. 1832. After Samuel Potts Goucher's death in 1851 most of the family along with a cousin Mary Ann and her husband Richard Lawrence, moved through Illinois and into Missouri. Richard, John, Henry and David, Mary Ann (Goucher) and Richard Lawrence all settled in the Bethany, Harrison County, Missouri area in the middle 1850's. All of the brothers served in the Civil War. Richard and Henry served in the 23rd Missouri Infantry and were captured at the Battle of Shiloh. Richard had three children by his first wife, Mary Ann Stewart: Henry, Emma (Collins) (Wilson) and William Sherman. Richard's second wife was Margaret Darthulia Alder (Wilson). Of this union were born seven children: Asa, Matilda Cathern (Timberman), Susan Luvenia (Timberman), Dora Bell, Cora Bell (Wood), Benjamin Harrison, and Margaret Mae (Young).